The Next Front? Student Loan Servicing and the Cost to Our Men and Women in Uniform

Like their fellow Americans, many servicemembers have student loan debt. Congress has enacted a number of protections and benefits for servicemembers to help manage their student loan debt. Unfortunately, the complexities of these provisions, together with problems in loan servicing, have created difficulties for many military families when attempting to manage their debt. In this report, we identify a range of challenging issues for servicemembers with student loans.